Sentence examples for easily run down from inspiring English sources
Pouring-oil was used in a number of historic battles, and Josephus described its use at Jotapata in AD 67, saying "the oil did easily run down the whole body from head to foot, under their entire armour, and fed upon their flesh like flame itself".
The guerrillas, riding better horses, easily ran down the fleeing soldiers and "killed our men as fast as they caught them, sparing none," according to a Union lieutenant.
The second-most demoralizing point of the set (after the one that Nadal won while seated on the service line) came in the last game, with Nadal easily running down a weak Ferrer forehand put-away attempt and sending it up the line for a winner.
The availability and price of oil, in particular, may further be threatened as easily extracted supplies gradually run down and sources have to be sought that are more difficult to get at technically, such as BP's Deepwater Horizon well off Louisiana, which exploded this year with disastrous consequences, or that are more politically contentious, such as the tar sands of Alberta in Canada.
The Louisiana Derby didn't derail any legitimate Triple Crown aspirations -- though the trainer David Hofmans and the jockey Chris McCarron must be concerned about how easily Millennium Wind was run down in the long stretch of the mile-and-a-sixteenth race.
It doesn't take much to get your system run down, and then you get sick, and learning does not come as easily as it should.
But they have been run down.
Much of it looks run down.
Run down Mercer Street past the bloggerazzi.
Blood began to run down her legs.
